Description
This is the second course in a three-part series on Broadband Technologies for the Certified in Convergent Network Technologies (CCNT) curriculum. This course covers ISDN and BISDN, X.25, Frame Relay, SS7, and Cell Relay.
Audience
The intended audience for this course includes anyone who wants to remain current in the data and telecommunications industries, including Network Engineers, Network Administrators, Telecommunications Technicians, Data/Internet/Telecommunications Sales Professionals, Telecom Sales Engineers, IT/Data Product Managers, and Telecom Account Managers. In addition, anyone taking advanced vendor-neutral or product-specific certification programs would benefit from this course. This course will help prepare candidates for the Broadband Technologies module of the CCNT exam. There are no formal prerequisites for this course. However, the CCNT Basic Data Communications, CCNT Basic Telecommunications, CCNT Computer-Telephony Integration (CTI) Essentials, and CCNT Local Area Networks curricula are recommended. In addition, students should have taken the first part of this series 87514.
Prerequisites
(Currently no course prerequisite information)
Objective
- Identify key features of Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) technology.
- Identify characteristics of ISDN transmission channels.
- Identify features of ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI).
- Identify features of X.25.
- Sequence the order of events that occur in X.25 virtual calls.
- Identify characteristics of X.25 virtual circuit identification.
- Identify features of the Next Generation Network (NGN).
- Identify features of Signal System 7 (SS7).
- Identify features of signaling points.
Topics Include
Unit 1: ISDN and B-ISDN - Identify key features of ISDN technology.
- Identify characteristics of ISDN transmission channels.
- Identify features of ISDN BRI.
- Identify features of ISDN Primary Rate Interface (PRI).
- Identify features of Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN).
- Identify characteristics of virtual channels and paths.
- Identify features of B-ISDN service classes.
Unit 2: X.25 and Frame Relay - Identify features of X.25.
- Sequence the order of events that occur in X.25 virtual calls.
- Identify characteristics of X.25 virtual circuit identification.
- Identify features of the X.25 packet format.
- Identify characteristics of Frame Relay.
- Identify features of Frame Relay voice transmission.
- Identify features of the committed information rate (CIR).
- Identify the functions of flow and error control in an X.25 circuit.
- Identify features of circuits.
- Identify features of congestion management encapsulation frames in a Frame Relay network.
- Match components of customer premises equipment (CPE) with their descriptions.
Unit 3: SS7 and Cell Relay - Identify features of the Next Generation Network (NGN).
- Identify features of Signal System 7 (SS7).
- Identify features of signaling points.
- Identify features of signaling links.
- Match signaling units with their descriptions.
- Identify features and functions of media gateway components.
- Identify characteristics of cell relay.
- Identify features of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).
- Identify features of Switched Multimegabit Digital Service (SMDS).
- Identify features of the SS7 protocol stack.
- Identify features of softswitches.
Duration
8
Minimum Requirements
The CDROM version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
- At least a double speed CDROM drive.
- An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently, only the CDROM version supports audio).
The network version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
Media
CDROM
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